Machine for beading heel-seats



(No Model.)

J. S. MATTHEWS. MACHINE FOR BEADING HEEL SEATS.

No. 417,062. Pptented Dec. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA F l\[i.\'l"llE\VS, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

MACHINE FOR BEADING HEEL-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,062, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed July 20, 1889. Serial No. 318,103. (No model.)

To (LZZ- whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA S. )IATTI-IEIVS, of Manchester, county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Machines for Beading Heel-Seats, of which the following description, in connect-ion with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. i

In the manufacture of shoes the heel-seat, or the end of the sole to which the heel is attached, is provided with a bead to constitute a finish. This work is commonly done by a tool moved wholly by hand.

In accordance with my invention I have provided a rod, a socket-piece loosely suspended therefrom, a bearing-block jointed to the said socket-piece and having a bearing at right angles to the joint between the said block and socket-piece, combined with a shaft in the bearing-block, a hand-piece pivoted on said shaft, a tool-shaft, an attached rotary edge beading-wheel, an actuating-shaft, and gearing between the said shafts, to operate substantially as will be described.

I have shown the hand-piece as suspended clear of the work and out of the operators way when not in use.

Figure 1, in elevation, represents a handpiece provided with a rotary beading-wheel. Fig. 2 is a like view, looking at the handpiece from the left of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section in the line at, Fig. 1. Fig. 4, on a smaller scale, shows the hand-piece supported for use. Fig. 5 is a detail showing the ends of the double arm A, the shaft, its pulleys, and yoke; and Fig. (3, a section on the dotted line a: at, Fig. 1.

The hanger A, secured to the ceiling in usual manner, receives a shaft A supporting the double arm A and the arm A", the latter having, as shown, a counter-balancing weight A, made adjustable. The shaft A driven in. any usual manner, has a pulley a, and the double arm A at its outer end has a shaft a, provided with a pulley a and a The shaft a supports a yoke a. (Shown separately in Fig. This yoke has jointed to it at 2 a rod b, the lower end of which is screwed into a sleeve 3, inserted loosely into a socket-piece c, the said sleeve having a pin 4, which is extended out through a slot 0 in the said socket-piece, so that the socket-piece can turn about the sleeve and rod for a limited distance, this loose connection permitting the hand-piece (Z (to be described) to escillate or turn partially about its longitudiual center. The socketpiece c is loosely pivoted by a pin or screw c" to cars of a bearing-piece c, the said screw being at right angles to the hole in the hearing which receives the shaft 0', which is also extended loosely through the ears (1 d of the hand-piece d, the latter having also as a part of it the extension ('1 having a bearing (1 for the tool shaft 6 and a bearing d" for the actuatingshaft f.

The metallic part of the handpieee to be grasped by hand has a detachable non-metallic section (1, preferably a half-round piece of wood, the wood affording a better hold than the metal alone for the hand. The handpiece also has a shield, as 8, for the belt-pulley 72., over which is extended the belt h, extended over pulley a on shaft a. The shaft a is driven by a belt a extended from pulley a over pulley ta The shaft 0 has fast on it a bevel-gear m, which engages a bevelgear 171, fast on the upper end of shaft f, a bevel-gear m at the lower end of said shaft engaging a bevel-gear m fast on the shaft 0 and rotating the beading-wheel c, also fast on the said shaft, the said beading-wheel having co-operating with it a rand or counterguard a loose on the shaft 6. The handpiece supported as described may be swung about. the horizontal shaft 0. It may also tip about the pin 0 and oscillate about the rod 1) as the wheel 6' is being rotated, such movements of the hand-piece enabling the operator to cause the said wheel to follow the heel-seat, whatever may be the shape of the said heel-seat or heel.

The operation of heading the heel-seat of a boot or shoe requires that the headingwheel be run at high speed, and consequently the surface or leather becomes quickly heated by friction, thus enabling the Wheel to not only bead the heel, but to burnish the heelseat. This heat is, however, prevented from injuring the upper-leather by the interposition of the counter-guard 6 between the upper and edge settingwheel, the counter-guard being a loose wheel or disk.

The shoe the heel of which is to be beaded may be supported in any usual manner and in any usual heel-burnishing' machine.

The beading-wheel is of such shape in cross-section that it both heads the heel-seat and burnishes the scam.

I claim 1. The rod, the socket-piece a, suspended therefrom loosely, the bearing-block 0 jointed to the said socket-piece and having a bearing at right angles to the joint between the said block. and socket-piece, combined with the shaft 0, the hand-piece pivoted on the said shaft, the shaft f, the shaft 6, the attached rotary edge-beading Wheel, and gear ing between the said shafts c, f, and e, to 0perate substantially as described.

2. The rod, the socket-piece c, a transverse slot therein, the sleeve attached to said rod and inserted loosely in the socket-piece, and a pin extended from said sleeve through the slot in the piece 0, whereby the hand-picce may be oscillated about its longitudinal axis, the hand-piece, means intermediate it and the socket-piece to support it loosely, the shaft f in and the shaft 6 rigidly supported by the hand-piece, gearing between the said shafts, and means to rotate the shaft f, com bined with the rotary edge-beading wheel on the shaft 6, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. S. MATTHEWS. Witnesses:

W. O. BERRY, D. W. LANE. 

